Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ansible skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ansible over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 67 70
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 954 1,937 3,002
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 3.28% 3.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.61% 20.45% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 1,428 2,113
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £489 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £743 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 5
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £37.00
25th Percentile £53.38 £56.72 £40.00
Median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £73.33 £76.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.00 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.38% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Ansible is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,125 9,471 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 16.03% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 6,832 10,249
10th Percentile £258 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 211 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.73 £24.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 813 £550 -11.65% 345
UK excluding London -8 474 £550 - 201
London -47 365 £575 -11.54% 165
Work from Home -37 331 £564 -6.00% 182
South East +29 167 £550 - 50
North of England +1 117 £520 -13.33% 33
South West -4 105 £563 -4.26% 51
Yorkshire +62 66 £514 -17.76% 10
Scotland -36 48 £525 +1.94% 15
North West -41 43 £540 -8.09% 19
Midlands -8 21 £520 +4.00% 24
West Midlands -11 12 £550 +4.76% 12
East of England -5 11 £650 +21.50% 20
East Midlands +16 9 £499 +12.13% 12
North East -4 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Wales +3 7 £645 +22.76% 6

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 72 (7.55%) Confluence
2 44 (4.61%) OpenStack
3 25 (2.62%) nginx
4 24 (2.52%) Apache
5 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.73%) IIS
7 6 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.63%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.42%) Drupal
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Traefik
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 382 (40.04%) AWS
2 252 (26.42%) Azure
3 116 (12.16%) GitHub
4 97 (10.17%) GCP
5 70 (7.34%) OpenShift
6 66 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (6.92%) Serverless
7 64 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
8 60 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 59 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (4.51%) IaaS
12 42 (4.40%) PaaS
13 41 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (3.35%) SaaS
17 28 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (1.99%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 125 (13.10%) Firewall
2 67 (7.02%) DNS
3 50 (5.24%) TCP/IP
4 43 (4.51%) VPN
5 35 (3.67%) SAN
6 32 (3.35%) BGP
7 31 (3.25%) Network Security
7 31 (3.25%) VLAN
8 29 (3.04%) DHCP
9 26 (2.73%) SSL
10 24 (2.52%) OSPF
11 23 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (2.10%) NAS
14 19 (1.99%) IPsec
14 19 (1.99%) SNMP
14 19 (1.99%) WAN
15 18 (1.89%) MPLS
16 17 (1.78%) HSRP
17 16 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
3 57 (5.97%) MySQL
4 49 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 39 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 35 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 32 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 22 (2.31%) Big Data
9 20 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.10%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (1.78%) RDBMS
11 14 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (1.47%) InfluxDB
12 10 (1.05%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.94%) Couchbase
13 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.84%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.84%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 357 (37.42%) Jenkins
2 176 (18.45%) Git
3 148 (15.51%) GitLab
4 113 (11.84%) JIRA
5 67 (7.02%) SonarQube
6 55 (5.77%) Bitbucket
7 48 (5.03%) Artifactory
8 47 (4.93%) Cucumber
9 41 (4.30%) Selenium
10 39 (4.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 37 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
12 24 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 24 (2.52%) TeamCity
13 23 (2.41%) Maven
14 20 (2.10%) Robot Framework
15 19 (1.99%) Subversion
16 14 (1.47%) CircleCI
16 14 (1.47%) Visual Studio
17 10 (1.05%) JUnit
17 10 (1.05%) Travis CI
General
1 198 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 114 (11.95%) Finance
3 92 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.18%) Banking
6 28 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 28 (2.94%) Law
7 19 (1.99%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.89%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 13 (1.36%) Police
11 12 (1.26%) Retail
12 9 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.52%) German Language
15 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 193 (20.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 97 (10.17%) Developer
3 86 (9.01%) Senior
4 82 (8.60%) Architect
5 69 (7.23%) Network Engineer
6 62 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
8 50 (5.24%) Lead
9 46 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 44 (4.61%) Linux Engineer
11 41 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 37 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 29 (3.04%) Automation Engineer
15 29 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
16 28 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (2.73%) Security Engineer
18 24 (2.52%) Python Engineer
18 24 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.12%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (7.34%) REST
3 60 (6.29%) .NET
3 60 (6.29%) YAML
4 46 (4.82%) JSON
5 38 (3.98%) Node.js
6 32 (3.35%) Kafka
7 26 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (2.62%) ARM Templates
9 24 (2.52%) Java EE
9 24 (2.52%) XML
10 23 (2.41%) .NET Core
10 23 (2.41%) RESTful
11 22 (2.31%) Spring
12 19 (1.99%) LDAP
13 17 (1.78%) Jinja
13 17 (1.78%) OpenID
14 16 (1.68%) SAML
15 15 (1.57%) Middleware
15 15 (1.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.08%) PKI
2 54 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 50 (5.24%) Data Centre
4 46 (4.82%) Linux Command Line
5 42 (4.40%) Replication
6 35 (3.67%) Cloud Native
7 32 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.04%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.94%) Clustering
10 22 (2.31%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.57%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
16 10 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
18 7 (0.73%) Fat Client
18 7 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
18 7 (0.73%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 412 (43.19%) Linux
2 178 (18.66%) Windows
3 96 (10.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 88 (9.22%) Unix
5 65 (6.81%) Windows Server
6 40 (4.19%) CentOS
7 31 (3.25%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.10%) Solaris
8 20 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (2.10%) zOS
9 18 (1.89%) VMS
10 14 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
11 11 (1.15%) Android
12 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.63%) Debian
14 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (45.81%) DevOps
2 359 (37.63%) CI/CD
3 254 (26.62%) Agile
4 235 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (19.60%) Configuration Management
6 154 (16.14%) Containerisation
7 147 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (14.99%) Continuous Integration
9 115 (12.05%) Test Automation
10 102 (10.69%) Scrum
11 80 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 79 (8.28%) Deployment Automation
12 79 (8.28%) ITIL
13 74 (7.76%) Software Engineering
14 71 (7.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 67 (7.02%) Migration
16 64 (6.71%) Task Automation
17 63 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
18 60 (6.29%) Infrastructure Automation
18 60 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 491 (51.47%) Python
2 224 (23.48%) PowerShell
3 188 (19.71%) Bash
4 119 (12.47%) Java
5 87 (9.12%) SQL
6 80 (8.39%) Shell Script
7 64 (6.71%) Go
8 57 (5.97%) JavaScript
9 54 (5.66%) Perl
10 44 (4.61%) C#
11 39 (4.09%) Ruby
12 27 (2.83%) C
12 27 (2.83%) Groovy
13 20 (2.10%) C++
13 20 (2.10%) Scala
14 19 (1.99%) JCL
14 19 (1.99%) REXX
15 18 (1.89%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.26%) Tcl
17 7 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 379 (39.73%) Security Cleared
2 277 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 106 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 46 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (3.88%) CCNP
5 37 (3.88%) Degree
6 23 (2.41%) CCNA
7 22 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.26%) CCIE
10 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.52%) RHCE
12 4 (0.42%) SANS
13 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.31%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.21%) CEH
14 2 (0.21%) CISSP
14 2 (0.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.61%) QA
2 18 (1.89%) NCSC
3 16 (1.68%) GDPR
4 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.15%) NIST
6 8 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.73%) RMADS
8 4 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.42%) SLA
9 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 267 (27.99%) Docker
2 91 (9.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (6.08%) Active Directory
4 41 (4.30%) vSphere
5 40 (4.19%) VMware NSX
6 36 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.41%) NFS
9 21 (2.20%) Hyper-V
10 19 (1.99%) Time Sharing Option
11 18 (1.89%) Firmware
12 6 (0.63%) KVM
13 5 (0.52%) vCloud
14 4 (0.42%) Ceph
14 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.21%) Varnish
16 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 1 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 486 (50.94%) Terraform
2 329 (34.49%) Kubernetes
3 155 (16.25%) Puppet
4 129 (13.52%) Grafana
5 118 (12.37%) Prometheus
6 90 (9.43%) Progress Chef
7 42 (4.40%) Kibana
8 35 (3.67%) Packer
9 33 (3.46%) logstash
10 31 (3.25%) Docker Swarm
11 27 (2.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 25 (2.62%) Nagios
13 23 (2.41%) PowerCLI
14 22 (2.31%) vRealize
15 21 (2.20%) NetBackup
16 20 (2.10%) Red Hat Satellite
17 19 (1.99%) Graylog
18 18 (1.89%) vCenter Server
19 17 (1.78%) Podman
20 16 (1.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 145 (15.20%) VMware
2 97 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 85 (8.91%) Cisco
4 80 (8.39%) Microsoft
5 70 (7.34%) Dell
5 70 (7.34%) Splunk
6 66 (6.92%) Oracle
7 64 (6.71%) IBM
8 39 (4.09%) Atlassian
9 38 (3.98%) SolarWinds
10 36 (3.77%) HP
10 36 (3.77%) ServiceNow
11 33 (3.46%) Google
12 31 (3.25%) Citrix
13 28 (2.94%) Veritas
14 27 (2.83%) F5
15 26 (2.73%) Palo Alto
16 22 (2.31%) CA
17 20 (2.10%) Brocade
17 20 (2.10%) Fortinet